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    Bible Themes

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    book discusses the message and warning from Isaiah that God will punish Israel, Judah, and the surrounding nations for their corrupt behavior, that includes idolatry and immorality (Holy Bible, NIV, 1996). "Hear, O heavens! Listen, O earth! This is what the Lord says: "The children I raised and cared for have turned against me. Even the animals-the donkey and the ox-know their owner and appreciate his care, but not my people Israel. No matter what I do for them, they still do not understand". "Oh What

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    2 Chr 12: 1-1 Changes

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    throughout the Bible. Most of the stories starting from the covenant that Yahweh made with Abraham, are told of the Israelites trying to establish their home (Israel), building up the kingdom, becoming prosperous, and then eventually falling away from God's ways and making God unhappy. The Israelites are then conquered or go to war with another kingdom in the area due to God being unhappy with them and leaving the Temple. This cause and effect type of relationship helps us to see why King Shishak marched

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    Israel is often referred to as the “chosen people” God chose Israel because he made an oath with Israel forefather, Abraham, to strayhis descendants away from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt (Deuteronomy 7:8). God ultimately chose the nation of Israel to teach and spread the word of Messiah. He wanted Israel to set an example for all the other nations, to be “a kingdom of priests and a holy nation” (Exodus 19:6). However, Israel failed God in this mission. Other nations

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    In 2012 on September 19th the United Nations Security Council met for its 6838th meeting to address the issue of Children in Armed conflict around the world and the role that the United Nations would play in the event of a Country utilizing children soldiers. The Security Council voted in favor 11 to 0 with only 4 countries abstaining such as China, Pakistan, Russia and Azerbaijan and their abstainment only came from issues with the Resolutions text and not the resolution itself. The Security Council

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    Jesus Through the Old Testament, Wright seeks to display the continuity between the Hebrew Scriptures and Jesus’ self-understanding. Wright maintains that Jesus’ self-understanding rooted in the history of salvation that God planned and worked for Israel. This review will show that Wright’s book provides the reader with a rich understanding of Jesus’ unique identity as the Hebrew

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    Sonship Research Paper

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    throughout the Bible, the theme of sonship is occasionally referred to explicitly, while yet at other times, it is implicitly interwoven into its contextual narrative. The skeletal structure for tracing out the theme of “sonship,” will be an “Adam-Israel-David-Christ-Christians trajectory,” since, these five major themes in Scripture deal most directly with this subject. The Sonship of Adam The theme of sonship begins with Adam in the Genesis account of God’s creation. Scripture declares that

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    genealogy of Jesus. He needed to prove to us that Jesus was the child of David, and trace this back to Abraham. For Matthew, Jesus is not the child of David, but rather he is the child of Abraham. He is a man from Israel. So it follows that Jesus ' teachings are in keeping with Israel 's law. In Matthew, not in the other gospels, we have Jesus saying he has not come to break up the law but rather to satisfy it. No part of the law will disappear. Yet, it is Matthew’s Gospel that most profoundly

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    Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are considered an Abrahamic religion. All stated in the Middle East near Israel. Abrahamic religions are those religions traced by their adherents to Abraham. All Abrahamic Religions are considered monotheistic, which is the belief in a single, universal, all-encompassing God. Islam, Christianity, and Judaism believe that their sacred texts (or scriptures) are the "Word of God." In Christianity the sacred text is the Bible, For Islam it is the Qur'an, and for Judaism

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    Doing my reading of The King Jesus Gospel book I was interested in learning more about the apostle Paul is the apostle to the Gentiles and Peter being the apostle to the Jews. This was something I did not know until I read this book. I found that to be really intriguing to me and I would like to know more about how God used them to reach these two different groups of people. In this book, I strongly agreed with the gospel being Jesus. McKnight says it perfectly that the “gospel is the secret

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    The Arab-Israeli War

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    in the middle east. (pg296-298). Once the canal was secured the French authorities asked the government of Israel to attack, in result that actually started the Arab-Israeli war. All three parties had a secret agreement to invade and provoke the Arabs. But France and Britain knowing that they are both aiming towards their own agenda and had a whole ultimatum to both the Egyptians and Israel. (pg301) regardless of the three power houses fighting against Egypt, the Suez crisis was one of the most classic

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